Of course there should be no "backlash." No innocent
people should be victimized for the deeds of someone else, and any such
act is reprehensible. There are two questions here:

1) Is Holder aware of, or even interested in, the fact that Islamic
supremacist pressure groups with ties to Hamas and the Muslim
Brotherhood, like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
exaggerate "backlash" fears beyond all proportion in order to deflect
attention away from both the jihad attack at hand and the failure of
Islamic groups in America to do anything to prevent such attacks?

2) Will Holder issue a similar warning to the Muslim community in the
U.S., calling on them to clean up their act and fight against jihad
terror activity sincerely, in both word and deed?

I expect that the answer to both is no.

"Breathing fire at the hypocrites," by Michael Goodwin in the New York Post, May 1:

It is a sad sight to watch a man grapple with a world that
fails to meet his expectations. Unless that man is Eric Holder. Then it
is simply infuriating.

The attorney general, warped by his own prejudice, is confused because his fellow citizens are better people than he imagines.

Holder sees white bigots around every corner, and can’t handle the
truth that very few Americans actually hate Muslims. So, like Elmer Fudd
hunting “wascally wabbits,” Holder’s shots usually backfire.

His Monday speech to the Anti-Defamation League was a classic case of
twisted thinking. With his FBI fumbling a chance to stop the Boston
bombers, he bizarrely stressed his determination to punish anyone who
discriminates against Muslims.

Of course, he didn’t admit that the bombers were Islamists. That
would violate the Obama administration’s omerta on linking Islam to
terrorism.

But the “see no evil” approach creates a dilemma. How do you
warn against vigilante attacks on Muslims without admitting that Muslims
did the bombing?

By being disingenuous, as Holder was, saying: “I also want to make
clear that — just as we will pursue relentlessly anyone who would target
our people or attempt to terrorize our cities — the Justice Department
is firmly committed to protecting innocent people against misguided acts
of retaliation.”

There haven’t been any attacks reported, nor have there been many
since 9/11. Indeed, Holder, trying to make it sound like an avalanche,
said Justice investigated “more than 800 incidents involving threats,
assaults and acts of vandalism and violence targeting Muslims, Arabs,
Sikhs, South Asians and others.”

Think about that — 800 investigations in nearly 12 years, or
about 70 a year, in a country of 320 million people. Notice he didn’t
say how many led to findings of guilt.

Inadvertently, Holder further undermined his argument with
another number. He said there were “more than 1,000 documented
incidents” of anti-Semitism in 2011 alone.

Clearly, Jews, not Muslims, bear a greater burden of religious
bigotry. But Jews don’t bomb marathons, so who is worried about
protecting them? Not Eric Holder.